CAIRO -- The captain of a Red Sea ferry has admitted that he steered clear of a doomed ship that sank between Saudi Arabia and Egypt last week, leaving at least 1,000 people feared dead, rather than help rescue survivors so as not to endanger his own passengers.

"I took the decision not to turn around to protect the lives of the 1,800 passengers on board the Saint Catherine," which was headed for the Saudi port of Duba, Captain Salah Jomaa told Tuesday's edition of the Egyptian government daily Al Ahram ......
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